Save time

Help & Manual helps you to create better documentation quicker. Despite its power the user interface and workflow are amazingly intuitive The time required for producing the help for a medium-sized software project can be measured in days or weeks instead of months.

Save money

Online help is a key feature of your software and is just as important for success as an application that does not crash. Professional, attractive and well-organized documentation can significantly decrease your support costs. At the same time it will also increase user satisfaction, generating a positive snowball effect.

Concentrate on your work

Explain your software to your users, not the help authoring tool to yourself. Help & Manual's intuitive user interface is transparent and straightforward. All the technical details are handled in the background by the program. What you see is what you get and what you get is what you need.

Work in a team

With Help & Manual you and your co-authors can all work on the same project at the same time. Just put your project on server where all team members can access it and get to work. Help & Manual makes sure that no two team members can try to change the same topic at the same time.

All standard help formats are supported

No matter whether you need to create  modern HTML Help, the obsolete Winhelp format, or even Visual Studio Help (also known as Help 2.0) for internal Visual Studio .NET programming documentation, Help & Manual is the right tool for the job. It compiles all standard help formats and it creates them all from the same single source.

In addition to this Help & Manual also generates multi-browser friendly Webhelp, Adobe PDF, printed manuals, single-file eBooks and Word RTF – also all from the same single source file, that you only need to edit once!

Reuse content

Create libraries of reusable topics and texts and insert them in your projects in Link or Copy mode. In Link mode the texts update everywhere where they are used when the original files are changed. In the Professional version you can also reuse topics from other projects directly.

Localize your documentation

Help & Manual projects can be edited and translated directly by translators working with professional tools like SDL Trados and Across. In addition to this, tools are also included to help translators using Help & Manual itself as their translation editor.

Supply a user manual

You can output printed manuals on paper or as a PDF file that your users can view on screen or print themselves. Here too, Help & Manual delivers where other help authoring tools just make promises – it creates ready-to-ship user manuals directly from your help project, including powerful facilities for controlling all the elements that need to be different in printed and electronic output.

Forget about maintaining different versions for your online help and printed manuals!

Writing help can be fun

Don't believe it? Give it a try with Help & Manual...